Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lights went out; eggs and tomatoes flew. The dark hall rang with women's screams, the thud of chairs wielded in combat, and the scuffle and bump of poetry lovers colliding in midflight. As if to prove that there was more at issue than the quality of the verse, there were cries of "Down with Franco!" Doña Alicia, opening her mouth to call for police, caught a slap squarely in the face...
...constituents of certain Congressmen to discover that the allotment for "social welfare, health, and security" is the only one that is lower than it was 11 years ago. 3.9 billion dollars out of a 9 billion dollar budget went for welfare then, much of it in work programs to combat unemployment; the 1951 allotment is 2.7 billion dollars, mostly in aid to the aged, blind, and to dependent children...
...merely permissive wording, far more intelligent application, and a publicity policy which can scrape the seereey from the State Department's decisions, would help combat the doctrine of guilt by association which has just cost American colleges another valuable...
...shorter ballets are also in the program. "Le Combat" is based on a canto of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered." In it Collette Marchand, who also stars in "L'Oeuf a la Coque," dances beautifully in a more traditional style. "Le Rendevous" is a somber and moody ballet of Paris which features Henry Danton. As good as they are, these suffer by comparison with such excitingly imaginative spectacles as "Carmen" and "L'Oeuf a la Coque...
Sands of Iwo Jima (Republic) is a war picture that bristles and booms with enough clips from official combat films to give its audience a realistic touch of battle fatigue. The rest of it is just plain fatiguing; the plot has no more freshness or emotional tug than a military manual, and it is peopled by a movie-hardened cast of characters who have served too many hitches on Hollywood's back-lot battlefields...